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In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

  
 Publications : Microbiology Today : Obituaries
She had a tremendous and infectious enthusiasm for research on a wide variety of micro-organisms, and she is particularly well known for her work on the purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria.
Her pioneering physiological and biochemical studies, which frequently exploited mutants, provided fundamental insights into tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and other metabolic processes, laying down foundations and concepts that are still achieving new relevance in the post-genomic era.
In 1984 he was attracted to the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down, eventually becoming the Head of Microbiology.
www.cis.sgm.org.uk /pubs/micro_today/obituaries.cfm   (9121 words)

  
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Another excellent source of historical data pertaining to CBW defense technology and history is Porton Down - 75 Years of Chemical and Biological Research.
This book discusses in detail the entire history of Britain's chemical and biological research headquarters, which remains to be an instrumental part of the advanced field of CBW strategy and defense.
Porton Down - 75 Years of Chemical and Biological Research, was written by G B Carter and was published by:
www.gasmasks.net /refs/refs.htm   (2655 words)

  
 Bird Flu or Cash Cow
Our patients who had taken regular doses of vitamins, minerals, omega oils, antioxidants and other natural supplements had rarely come down with colds, flu, and other infections.
This facility, owned by Merck and Aventis, is also a vaccine production laboratory located near Pirbright, Surrey, not far from Britain’s own government Institute for Animal Health.
            According to the Sunday Express, a routine audit into the government’s bio-warfare research laboratory Porton Down revealed that a container of foot and mouth virus went missing two months before the outbreak in early 2001.
www.newdawnmagazine.com /articles/Bird%20Flu%20or%20Cash%20Cow.html   (4035 words)

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